First round of Finnish touring car national series FinTrack-tour was run 28.-29-10.2015 at an old warehouse called âśBunkerâť in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. This year FinTrack-tour consist of 4 indoor races and 2 outdoor races and classes to be run are Modified, 13,5t blinky ProStock and 21,5t blinky Stock. This years spec tire is the same as the popular ETS series, so Volante 28 V5 is used. Ideal location near the harbour brought many Estonian drivers to the race and also Russian drivers came with great numbers.
Track made by the organizing club Fullspeed RC was smallish and really challenging, featuring a high speed shicane after the main straight and some pretty narrow parts. From the practice it was clear that the track was a real challenge with quite low grip.
For the last final Karri, Henry and Kalle had possibility to win the race. Kalle got taken out right off the start and Karri cruised to victory after some pressure by Henry on the first two minutes.
Stock class had strong showing by Eetu Laaksonen, winning 3 out of 4 qualifying rounds and all 3 finals. Joonis Oksanen ran great finals getting second from starting 4th on the grid with Estonian driver Risto Haug rounding out the podium.
Stock Top 10
1. Eetu Laaksonen 2. Joonis Oksanen - XRAY T4
3. Risto Haug - XRAY T4
4. Jona Oksanen - XRAY T4
5. Tero Niskanen
6. Mikko Mäkelä
7. Leevi Loukola
8. Miikka Luhta 9. Pekka Kuronen - XRAY T4
10. Jukka Laaksonen
ProStock
Vesa Yli was the class of the field in ProStock class, winning 3 out of 4 qualifying rounds and winning last two finals taking the win. 1:5 Offroad European Champion Jörg Tiit fought to second place with Markus Afelt getting 3rd.
ProStock top 10
1. Vesa Yli
2. Jörg Tiit 3. Markus Afelt - XRAY T4
4. Marko Vähäkuopus 5. Lasse Ilvessalo - XRAY T4
6. Sami Salmela 7. Lauri Malinen - XRAY T4
8. Tuomas Afelt - XRAY T4
9. Risto Haug - XRAY T4
10. Hans Hannus